The Good. The Bad. And the Travels.

November 3, 2013November 6, 2013

Move on, USA!

Waiting at the check-in line at the airport, I randomly looked at my waiver visa paper in my passport. For some reason, until that very moment I had never bothered to take a closer look at it – other than checking the date to make sure I wasn’t leaving the US on the wrong date. So here, at the Cincinnati airport, it is staring right at me, my waiver visa for: Marinela Potor, from the Federal Republic of Western Germany.EXCUSE ME??? You GOT to be kidding me! WESTERN Germany??Almost 25 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin wall and after almost 25 years of ONE re-united Germany, the US is still caught up in the Cold War? I understand that for a loooong time the US considered anything that went beyond the shade of purple as a huge threat, and Russia and its allies were clearly enemy number 1. This was back in 1967. And in 1982. And probably still in 1988. But this is 2013!!! The world has moved on. So dear USA, it’s about time you do it, too!

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Really? I mean, if it had come from some random person, no biggie. Even some Germans still talk about east and west Germany, but on an official document that was created a couple of years ago – STRANGE!